The Farseekers
core novel 1990 The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.14 (7,927 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780670837687 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Two years after the events of Obernewtyn, the mountain compound has become a thriving secret community of Misfits, organised into guilds by talent, with Rushton as its legal owner and the Council believing it destroyed in a firestorm. Elspeth Gordie, now guildmistress of the Farseekers, leads a small expedition to the lowland town of Rangorn to rescue a powerful young Misfit before the Herder Faction finds him, and a prophecy warns that the party must include the boy Jik and must return before the mountain pass closes for the winter, or Obernewtyn will fall. The journey takes them through the White Valley, the camp of the Druid's rebel band and the haunted Tor mountain, and teaches Elspeth more about the Beforetime, about the quest that is hers alone, and about the danger of the Druid, who wants Obernewtyn's powers for his own war.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Obernewtyn Chronicles
- Series: The Obernewtyn Chronicles core; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Isobelle Carmody
Awards (verified)
- Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year (Older Readers), 1991: honor; Honour book.
Notes
- From the series record (The Obernewtyn Chronicles): Isobelle Carmody's seven-book young-adult saga (1987-2015) of Elspeth Gordie, a telepathic Misfit in the post-apocalyptic Land, and the secret community of Misfits at the mountain compound of Obernewtyn. Registered in its Australian seven-volume form; North American and UK editions split The Stone Key (adding Wavesong) and The Sending (adding The Waking Dragon).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Obernewtyn Chronicles: position 2 of 7: previous Obernewtyn (1987) · next Ashling (1995)
Sources
← The Obernewtyn Chronicles dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.